DARPA Interested in Phased-Array Sonar for UUVs
Ami Rojkes Dombe
| 13/02/2018
By Paul Esparon, Sunil Shah, Dr Timothy Nickels and the 2008 CAUV team. - University of Cambridge Department of Engineering, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7541989
US military researchers are working with two technology companies to develop underwater phased-array sonar that could operate covertly on unmanned submersibles or surface vessels as small, lightweight, and affordable ocean-surveillance systems.
Officials of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have awarded contracts to Systems & Technology Research (STR) LLC in Woburn, Mass., and to Applied Physical Sciences Corp. (APS) in Groton, Conn., for the Tactical Exploitation of the Acoustic Channel (TEAC) program.
DARPA officials say they are interested in developing a system with a modest number of independent distributed acoustic transmitters that can increase the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and focus the acoustic energy from the transmitters at the receiver.
[Source: Military & Aerospace]
By Paul Esparon, Sunil Shah, Dr Timothy Nickels and the 2008 CAUV team. - University of Cambridge Department of Engineering, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7541989
US military researchers are working with two technology companies to develop underwater phased-array sonar that could operate covertly on unmanned submersibles or surface vessels as small, lightweight, and affordable ocean-surveillance systems.
Officials of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have awarded contracts to Systems & Technology Research (STR) LLC in Woburn, Mass., and to Applied Physical Sciences Corp. (APS) in Groton, Conn., for the Tactical Exploitation of the Acoustic Channel (TEAC) program.
DARPA officials say they are interested in developing a system with a modest number of independent distributed acoustic transmitters that can increase the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and focus the acoustic energy from the transmitters at the receiver.
[Source: Military & Aerospace]
